Lets get a few things straight

There are a few things you won't find here: You won't find pictures of me. You won't find any attempt to get you to sign up to anything. I don't want your credit card, no I won't appear on webcam, nor do I want you to sign up to anything. Got it?

Sometimes I wonder if I am too mean to the various oddities in behaviour I spot on IRC. People’s physical characteristics seem to vary, people get taller or shorter by the day, put on weight or lose weight faster then would normally seem healthy, sometimes even their gender spontaneously changes. Creepy.

(2:20:16 AM) oldman4u: hi(2:24:12 AM) gothkat: Hello hello(2:24:25 AM) oldman4u: how are you(2:24:27 AM) oldman4u: asl plz(2:25:26 AM) gothkat: 23, female, from Western Canada(2:25:39 AM) oldman4u: im 61/m/aust(2:25:56 AM) oldman4u: my names ray(2:26:06 AM) gothkat: Wow. Aust…(2:26:09 AM) gothkat: Australia?(2:26:24 AM) oldman4u: yes(2:26:46 AM) oldman4u: hope you dont mind my age(2:27:20 AM) gothkat: I’m not really a science geek, but is that in a different time space continuum?(2:27:42 AM) oldman4u: i guess(2:28:13 AM) gothkat: I’m thinking it must be(2:28:41 AM) gothkat: You’ve experienced two years, whereas I have only experienced 22 days. That’s so cool.(2:30:11 AM) gothkat: See, we talked about three weeks ago, you seemed like a nice enough guy (which is odd for IRC, and is why I remember you), but back then you were 59, now you’re 61.(2:32:47 AM) gothkat: Or is Australia just so far east that it’s drifting into the future faster then the rest of the planet?

On a totally unrelated topic, it always reminds me what this IRC friend of mine would say (btw, for proper crediting, her nick’s amanita):
“Welcome to the IRC, where the men are men, the women are men, and the teenies are FBI agents”

Which is not true (you are very woman and on IRC, as was her) but indeed highlights well the tendency of many IRC users to pose.